A potential Joaquin Phoenix Best Actor Academy Award win for Joker: Folie à Deux, the sequel to 2017’s Joker, would create Oscars history.
Though it is still too soon to predict how Joker: Folie à Deux will perform with critics and audiences, Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker return could create Oscars history. Given how successful the first Joker was at the box office – Joker is the highest-grossing R-Rated movie of all time – a sequel announcement would never be too surprising. Still, Joker 2 happening with Phoenix reprising his Academy Award-winning role was big news.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Joker played out as a very self-contained movie that did not necessarily ask for a sequel. In addition, given how little connections to the DC Comics universe Joker had, the character’s history throughout Batman’s mythos couldn't be used to predict what would be next for Phoenix’s Joker. That uncertainty only makes Joker 2 more exciting, especially with Phoenix reprising his role as the iconic Batman villain.
Still, when it comes to the same actor playing the same character in a sequel like Joaquin Phoenix in Joker: Folie à Deux, winning two Academy Awards would be an Oscars first. Sequels overall do not perform well in the Academy Awards, as those are usually tied to blockbusters and franchises that, historically, never had a solid Oscars track. The Joker sequel, however, appears to be a different case.
Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker Return Is Already Special Even if Joaquin Phoenix does not win an Oscar for his portrayal of Arthur Fleck, the Joker, in Folie à Deux, just the fact that the actor is returning for the sequel makes it so much more exciting. An actor who reprised an Oscar-winning performance in a sequel had only happened nine times in all of the Academy Awards' history, with Gene Hackman, Shirley Maclaine, and Tommy Lee Jones as some examples.
Sequels are usually not expected to have a strong Oscars presence, especially when it comes to superhero movies or anything franchise-related. Such a trend may be beginning to change, as seen with the 2023 Oscar nominations for Top Gun: Maverick, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Avatar: The Way of Water. Joker: Folie à Deux is expected to be a very different sequel compared to the first Joker and to sequels in general, with the movie being described as a musical.
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